Sunday, April 2, 2017

Let's look at capitalism

Continuing the ideas in this post, Richard Wolff asks us to explore what's beneath Twamp and Bannon. The latter are just the symptoms of a much larger, systematic problem with capitalism itself. His conclusion:

"Resistance has quickly become the watchword of an impressive
opposition to the Trump-Bannon government and its fascist potential.
However, the lessons of capitalism's dysfunctional politics will have
gone unlearned if opposition remains at the level of resisting this
particular administration. Exchanging the Trump-Bannon regime for a
return to 'normal' capitalism returns us to precisely the system that
produced Trump and Bannon. An adequate politics now requires that
political parties endorsing capitalism be supplemented and challenged by
those that do not. We need a political debate and contest between those
who think capitalism is the best that human society can achieve and
those who think we can do better. The continuing, one-sided politics of
the Cold War, in which criticism of capitalism has been equated with
treason, could then be overcome. We could finally welcome a more
balanced contestation among political movements -- one that includes
genuinely different views on capitalism as a system. We could open our
minds to the system's problems, and start to create alternatives."